Weekend
Saturday there was a cruise on a catamaran in Saco Bay (Southern Maine). My sister and her husband from Delaware came up to visit and my sister in Saco chartered this boat ride. Different...
Category: eco dyeing
Curly dock seed
A new dye plant makes itself known! Bits of information and observation came into alignment and I realized this dark brown flag of seeds was curly dock and that it could be used as...
Gladdening
It is a trick, or should I call it a technique, that I’m learning. Grace called it brightening, but I know it as gladdening. Gladdening the heart. That’s the phrase that comes to my...
Fresh color
A new color wheel, design shared by my friend who got it from her teacher. Primaries, secondaries, tertiaries and an inner circle of neutralized colors (a bit of complementary added). I’m working on some...
March energy
I’m just acting as if spring is going to arrive. I have faith, although the weather is still wintry. I feel energetic about gardening. I started some leek, shallot, cipollini, and celery seeds indoors....
Tiny indigo harvest
I was feeling embarrassed about my neglected dye garden and was continuing to ignore it. But an Instagram account I follow posted about her experiments dyeing little pieces of cloth with a small amount...
Late summer dyeing
My blogs were down for awhile. I changed something that had a drastic effect and it has taken awhile to get back to posting. My gardening blog is still not working right, in fact....